Monday, November 19, 2012

First Steps First

Do you want the good news first or the bad news?  As a worry-wart-cynic, I always choose the bad news first:

It's in the American Journal of Managed Care.  As a web-exclusive.

In this context, I guess it would have made more sense to start with the good news:

I'm a first author!  It's my first time as a first author.  

Doc Whitecastle has been alternatively encouraging and disparaging of this accomplishment.  I believe he's aiming for 100% encouragement, but the reality of it all slips through.

(discussing a paper in progress on which, if published, I would also be first author)

Whitecastle: If [journal under review] accepts this.  That'd be great.  It'd mean you're first author on a [journal under review] paper.

Moi: Which is a lot better than an online exclusive.

Whitecastle: Yeah.  The worst part of that was that it was the American Journal of Managed Care of all places.  

The indignities don't end there.  Whitecastle asked me for a PDF of the article today (encouraging) but I haven't found a way to procure one.  

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